Spanish Johnny

DESCRIPTION: "The old West, the old time, The old wind singing through..." are the habitat of Spanish Johnny, who herds cattle and kills men and "sing[s] to his mandolin." Spanish Johnny is finally hung; the night before he dies, he sings one last time to the mandolinAUTHOR: Words: Willa Cather / Music: C. E. Scoggins (?)EARLIEST DATE: 1934KEYWORDS: cowboy death execution musicFOUND IN:REFERENCES (1 citation):Lomax-ABFS, pp. 123-124, "Spanish Johnny" (1 text, 1 tune)Roud #15551NOTES: Written as a poem, the Lomaxes apparently collected this from the author of the tune. There is no evidence that it ever entered tradition. - RBWFile: LxA123